Weakness invites aggression.
Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.
Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.
When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.
In today’s society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you’re not allowed to show weakness. That’s just so false.
I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.
Wenger simply doesn’t like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It’s only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it’s worth recalling that conservatism’s rise was decisively enabled by liberalism’s weakness.
The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren’t effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.
You find strength in your moments of weakness.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
When you know you’re vulnerable, and you know… your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
The injuries and subsequent incidents inspired me to do something. I converted my weakness into my strength and made it my weapon.
Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
I don’t think, as a player, I have a weakness on the field. I’ve done a great job of becoming good at everything, so I think that’s what separates me.
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You don’t want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
With a guy like Yoel Romero, if he senses weakness, he will capitalize on it every time he can.
Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it’s in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we’re so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
I like songs. It’s a weakness that I have.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
My greatest weakness is… food. If it looks like it’s going to taste nice, it goes in my face – simple as that.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Everything affects you, and it doesn’t measure how tough you are by being a rock and sitting by yourself. People need to talk. It’s not a sign of weakness.
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the ‘Guardian’ hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I’ve really got under their skin. It’s like annoying a teacher. Once they’ve shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.
The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.
Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
There’s a strength and weakness to every play.
I do a lot of planning and plotting. That’s my greatest weakness. If I’m not terribly careful, I’ll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.
As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that’s a pretty silly way to look at it.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
None of us live single-issue lives… That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
The coaches Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna are very detailed in the preparation. We study the weakness of the opponents.
Bringing the Baltics into the alliance is not a zero sum game in which NATO’s gain is Russia’s loss, NATO’s strength Russia’s weakness.
I have to avoid sweet food because it’s my weakness, and it’s really hard. What you eat will definitely affect your skin, so I really try to stay away from sweets.
My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce.
The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness – a vulnerability that you could seek out.
When I write in Italian – this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is – I feel like I’m writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
